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ARM is great, ARM is terrible, and so is RISC-V
’ve long been interested in new and different platforms. I ran Debian on an Alpha back in the late 1990s and was part of the Alpha port team; then I helped bootstrap Debian on amd64.
I’ve got somewhere around 8 Raspberry Pi devices in active use right now, and the free NNCPNET Internet email service I manage runs on an ARM instance at a cloud provider. I’ve been looking for ARM devices that have accelerated AES (Raspberry Pi 4 doesn’t) so I can use full-disk encryption with them. It is great to see all the options of small SBCs with ARM and RISC-V processors, but at some point you’ve got to throw up your hands and go “this ecosystem has a lot of problems” and consider just going back to x86.
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